Is XWT dead?https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/476750/1041979/#msg_1041979
I've tried to get some insights to the XWT project technology but unfortunately found out that the XWT project is dead (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Thanks.
Andrey]]>Andrey Loskutov2013-04-15T21:10:44-00:00Re: Is XWT dead?https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/476750/1042378/#msg_1042378
A team and a new project structure are created. It is moved from e4 into Technology as a standalone project. The build it reachable here:http://download.eclipse.org/xwt/updates

Best regards
Yves YANG]]>Yves YANG2013-04-16T10:57:46-00:00Re: Is XWT dead?https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/476750/1042400/#msg_1042400
Best regards
Yves YANG ]]>Yves YANG2013-04-16T11:34:41-00:00Re: Is XWT dead?https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/476750/1042537/#msg_1042537
Thank you for the fast response.

We are evaluating different technology stacks we can use for "Java-free" Eclipse UI design, and so I was stumbled upon XWT.

For me it is still somewhat unclear - what is the plan for the project?

How log it will take for the release?
When the project will leave incubation?
Where is the source code repository?
Is this only "one-company" driven project without much involvement from other parties?
What is the main use case for it? Previously this was for e4 UI design, but now the e4 GUI design is done with the different technology?

It would be nice if you could elaborate a little bit more about your plans for the future.

Regards,
Andrey]]>Andrey Loskutov2013-04-16T14:46:19-00:00Re: Is XWT dead?https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/476750/1042634/#msg_1042634
XWT is a really interesting technology that can boost UI development (once you are familiar with it, of course).
For me, these are the key arguments to using XWT as a UI technology:

- a clean separation of business logic and ui design (of course, you can do this in java, too, but this forces you and/or your [not advanced developers] to do the separation)
- it is XML, which allows you to preprocess it using your favorite transformations (xslt, xquery, ...), for example, for filtering everything out from the XML according to authorization rules (imagine how you would do this in java code)

Tom Schindl has developed an xtext based DSL editor for fxml (javafx xml) which is a cool idea to adapt to XWT as well. This would allow to have a fully featured editor (with syntax highlighting, content assist, etc.).

We are evaluating different technology stacks we can use for "Java-free" Eclipse UI design, and so I was stumbled upon XWT.

For me it is still somewhat unclear - what is the plan for the project?

How log it will take for the release?
When the project will leave incubation?
Where is the source code repository?
Is this only "one-company" driven project without much involvement from other parties?
What is the main use case for it? Previously this was for e4 UI design, but now the e4 GUI design is done with the different technology?

It would be nice if you could elaborate a little bit more about your plans for the future.

Look, could you at least update the project information in the E4-Wiki?]]>Martin Schröder2013-06-04T14:59:14-00:00Re: Is XWT dead?https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/476750/1061909/#msg_1061909
The update site is not for direct consumption over a browser.
It is for installing via the Eclipse "Install Software..." wizard (which true for most other eclipse projects, too).

Martin Schröder wrote on Tue, 04 June 2013 16:59

The URL gives a 404.

Look, could you at least update the project information in the E4-Wiki?

]]>Erdal Karaca2013-06-04T16:02:20-00:00Re: Is XWT dead?https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/476750/1061972/#msg_1061972
Still: Please update the old Wiki and collect all information about the current project in one place (you could even use the Wikipedia article ).

And an up-to-date tutorial would be very useful.]]>Martin Schröder2013-06-05T08:06:27-00:00